Pearse Doherty (Donegal, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Yesterday, my party leader, Deputy McDonald, asked the Taoiseach to clarify the future of the pandemic unemployment supports and stated that for as long as the public health emergency prevents people from going to work, the supports they rely on should be retained in full for the sectors affected. No clarity was provided by the Taoiseach but last night, according to media reports, the Tánaiste shed some light on this issue for his party. I ask him to shed light on it for the Dáil now. Will he give a commitment that the current rates of the pandemic unemployment payment, PUP, will remain in place until autumn? Will he commit, as he has done before, that those prevented from going back to work, either in full or in part, as a result of public health restrictions will continue to be supported at the current rates of payment?

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